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A white man who allegedly shot dead a 15-year-old black teenager in West Virginia told investigators: "The way I see it, that’s another piece of trash off the street."

About 75 friends and family of slain teenager James Means held a candlelit vigil in the city’s east end, near the location where he was shot after exchanging words with William Pulliam.

"James was a good friend to me. He always came up with ideas of what to do and how to make it fun," 13-year-old James Cooper, one of Means’ friends who witnessed the shooting, told the Charleston Gazette-Mail.